In excess of 80 riders contested the 2005 Alberta Provincial Cyclo-cross Championships, held Sunday on a fast, dry course in Red Deer. Newly-crowned Provincial Champions include Tim Heemskerk (United Cycle) and Mical Dyck (Terrascape) in the Elite Men and Elite Women categories respectively. Heemskerk, who has dominated the Alberta 'cross season, is not eligible to compete at the Canadian National Championships next weekend in Ontario as he is a Dutch citizen. Congratulations also to the Juventus club, winners of 5 of 6 medals in the U17 and Junior categories, and their champions Samantha Grover (U17 Women), David Larson (U17 Men), and '04 National medalist Mike Bidniak (Junior Men). Thanks to Bob McKerrell and the Central Alberta Bicycle Club for a great course and a fine race.

Master A Men

1

Craig DeBellefeuille

Synergy

47m22s

2

Craig Good

Synergy

47m58s

3

Lonn Bate

Terrascape

47m59s

4

Brys Francis

United Cycle

48m40s

5

Dan Wood

ERTC/redbike

48m47s

6

Phil MacDonald

Calgary Cycle

48m58s

7

Marty Machacek

Synergy

49m15s

8

Shane Rush

Velocity

49m36s

9

Gunnar Giese

United Cycle

50m00s

10

Keith Bayly

Deadgoat

50m32s

11

Tim Riess

Pedalhead

50m59s

12

Sandy Hilton

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

51m39s

13

Rod Walker

Crankmasters

st

14

John Encarnacao

United Cycle

53m56s

15

Trevor Pombert

United Cycle

at 1 lap

dnf

Reid Cummings

Cyclemeisters/Bow Cycle

dnf

dnf

Curtis Roper

Velocity

dnf

dnf

Brennan Bagdan

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

dnf

Master B Men

1

Peter Toth

ERTC/redbike

40m21s

2

Peter Lawrence

Team Pusch

41m28s

3

Tracy Shearer

Juventus

42m18s

4

John Riess

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

42m20s

5

Michael Johns

CABC/Projekt 1

42m21s

6

Gary Brown

Rundle Mountain CC

43m15s

7

Roger Clemens

United Cycle

43m45s

8

Zbigniew Szymanski

United Cycle

44m40s

9

Ed Garvin

Blacksheep

44m59s

10

Kevin Rokosh

ERTC/redbike

45m18s

11

Tommy Mak

Eurotech

45m55s

12

Finn Pedersen

Team Pusch

46m05s

13

Gary Middleton

Juventus

st

14

Lance Adamson

United Cycle

46m17s

15

Michael Meeres

CABC/Projekt 1

46m38s

16

Doug Urness

CABC/Projekt 1

46m58s

17

Gus Ruest

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

47m20s

18

Derrill Shuttleworth

Pedalhead

at 1 lap

19

Michael Kohlenberg

United Cycle

at 1 lap

20

Richard Vervoort

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

at 1 lap

21

Ted Dahms

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

at 1 lap

Master C Men

1

Don Fox

Juventus

44m59s

2

Claude Breau

bicisport

45m50s

3

Michael Zelensky

Terrascape

46m00s

4

Pat Ferris

Blizzard

46m05s

5

Wayne Long

United Cycle

at 1 lap

Elite Men

1

Tim Heemskerk

United Cycle

1h00m31s

2

Shaun Adamson*

United Cycle

1h01m46s

3

Nick Friesen

The Bike Shop

1h02m03s

4

Ryan Hopping*

ERTC/redbike

1h02m17s

5

Sean Barr

Pedalhead Road/Sleeman

1h02m48s

6

Jesse Collins

bicisport

1h03m13s

7

Andre Sutton

Hardcore

1h03m36s

8

Cyrus Kangarloo

Synergy

1h03m49s

9

Evan Sherman

United Cycle

1h04m02s

10

Per Strom*

bicisport

1h04m12s

11

Mike Sarnecki

United Cycle

1h06m13s

12

cp Walsh

Synergy

at 1 lap

13

Mark MacDonald*

Sport Chek

at 1 lap

14

Anthony Steenbergen

Bow Cycle/Cyclemeisters

at 1 lap

15

Robin Baillie

Cycledelia

at 1 lap

16

Cam McKnight

ERTC/redbike

at 1 lap

18

Bruce Copeland

Juventus

at 1 lap

19

Jason Frank

CABC/Projekt 1

at 1 lap

20

Chris Stipdonk*

United Cycle

at 1 lap

21

Brian Kullman

Synergy

at 1 lap

22

Lance Harris*

Juventus

at 2 laps

dnf

Brent Johnson

Independent

dnf

dnf

Stephen Ferris*

ERTC/redbike

dnf

* Espoir

Women

1

Mical Dyck

Terrascape

Elite W

38m33s

2

Marg Fedyna

ERTC/redbike

Elite W

40m09s

3

Madelaine Bate

Terrascape

Elite W

41m18s

4

Natasha Kuzmak

Synergy

Elite W

44m05s

5

Joanne Breau

bicisport

Master W

at 1 lap

6

Samantha Grover

Juventus

U17 W

at 1 lap

U17 and Junior Men

1

Mike Bidniak

Juventus

Junior M

42m02s

2

Spencer Smitheman

Juventus

Junior M

42m56s

3

Brian Robinson

Bow Cycle/Cyclemeisters

Junior M

44m52s

4

David Larson

Juventus

U17 Men

45m26s

5

Malcolm Brentnall

Independent

Junior M

48m28s

6

Kyle Harris

Juventus

U17 Men

at 1 lap

7

Connor Witzke

Juventus

U17 Men

at 1 lap

8

Mac Garvin

Blacksheep

U17 Men

at 2 laps

dnf

Andrew Scheitzsch

United Cycle

Junior M

dnf

Lyne Keeps Rolling, Tim Wins in GloucesterCourtesy Millman Media

October 31, 2005

The weekend was circled in red pen from the day they started their comeback season, but Saturday's third stop on the Crank Brothers U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross in Gloucester, Mass. still managed to exceed Tim Johnson and Lyne Bessette's wildest expectations. The Cyclocrossworld.com-Louis Garneau duo chalked up a pair of wins in a freak snowstorm that coated the Stage Fort Park course in a wet blanket of snow. Twenty-four hours later, Sunday's race went off under warm and sunny conditions and Lyne tallied win number eight on the season while Tim finished fifth.

In his triumphant return to what he considers his home course, Tim rocketed off the front of the 100-rider Elite Men's field on the very first lap. As his main rivals struggled in the snowy and muddy conditions, Tim sailed away for one of the most fulfilling wins of his career. The win catapulted Tim into the U.S. Gran Prix leader's jersey, though he ceded the jersey back to Ryan Trebon (Kona) on Sunday after finishing fifth behind Trebon's win.

"I was not expecting this at all," said Tim after toweling off and warming his frozen body on Saturday. "Even if I ended my season today I'd consider it a success. To come back and win this race, in front of my family and friends, it was more than I had hoped for. My Louis Garneau SteepleX bikes were perfect and Stu Thorne did an incredible job keeping me going with new bikes in the pits."

Proving herself equally comfortable in the snow as on the fast dirt, Lyne ran away with both days' races. The only hiccup in her march towards an undefeated North American season came on the first lap of Saturday's race. Lyne hit the ground hard on the first off camber corner of the muddy, snowy course, but popped back up, went straight to the front of the Elite Women's field, and was off the front by the end of lap one. Even with freezing fingers and the accumulating snow Lyne stretched her lead to almost two minutes by the finish.

"Even with the bad conditions, I felt really good," said Lyne. "The mountain bike racing I did this year really made it possible for me to handle these conditions. I know I have the power from my road racing to go fast on fast courses, but now I know I can go fast in bad conditions too. To win and then have Tim win, it was a great day for us."